Sexually transmitted brucellosis in humans

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Meltzer, Eyal ^a,c   Sidi, Yechezkel ^a,c   Smolen, Gill ^b   Banai, Menachem ^d   Bardenstein, Svetlana ^d   Schwartz, Eli ^a,c  

^a Department of Medicine   (Australia)

^b Chaim Sheba Medical Center   (China)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d Department of Bacteriology   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; QUINOLONE; RIFAMPICIN; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; APHTHOUS ULCER; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOTYPE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SMEAR; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CHEESE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DISKITIS; DNA EXTRACTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDIDYMITIS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD SAFETY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MILK; MYALGIA; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORCHIDOEPIDIDYMITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGOR; SCROTAL PAIN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPERM; SPOUSE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; URINALYSIS; BRUCELLA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORCHITIS; TRANSMISSION;

AGED; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORCHITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMEN; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 77954722303     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653608     Document Type: Article

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